1. Pre-Instructional Planning This is a forty minute lesson planned for the 5thd grade. It is part of a two week lesson that will teach students about one of the elements of figurative language the idiom.
a. Planning Team: This lesson was designed by Judy High and Nora Neumann. b. Student Group: As stated this is a 5th grade lesson regarding idioms. The class contains 23 students. c. Lesson Title: Idioms d. PA K-12 Academic Standards – Speaking & Listening 1.6 e. AASL 21st Century Reading/Information Literacy Standards - Inquire, Think Critically, and Gain Knowledge Skills 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.7, 1.3.1 Pursue personal and aesthetic growth – 4.1.1
2. Objectives: As a result of today’s lesson 5th grade students will be able state the definition of an idiom and give one example of an idiom.
3. Materials: Idiom Cards, Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People by Will Moses 4. Lesson Activities: a. Introduction: Librarian greets students at the door “Hello boys and girls. Welcome to the library. Follow me to the story carpet”. b. Developmental Activities: 1. “Hello and how is your day going? Language can be very beautiful. It also can be very funny. Does anyone know what this means? Hold up corresponding idiom card with ‘swallowed it hook, line and sinker’ written on it? Or ‘skeletons in your closet’? Or ‘in a pickle’? 2. These are idioms. Does anyone know what an idiom is”? Discuss. 3. “No one really knows the exact history of idioms. They are believed to come from various cultures and writers. For example the idiom bury the hatchet is thought to come from the American Indians. Writers such as Shakespeare and Aesop were also thought to have made up idioms when they were writing”. 4. “When you think about the literal meaning of an idiom it can be very funny. If I say you have egg on your face does that really mean you have egg all over your face”? No of course not. But what if English wasn’t your first language. What would you think some of those idioms meant? In the doghouse might really mean that you were in the doghouse”. 5. Today we are going to read the book Raining Cats and Dogs: A Collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People. This book was written and illustrated by Will Moses. 6. Read idioms in the book asking students if they know what the idiom means before telling them the meaning. For example, ‘make a beeline’. “Does that really mean that a bee is making a line down the center of a road”? c. Closure 7. “Who can tell me what an idiom is? Do we take idioms literally? Idioms are very fun and we’re going to continue the fun next week when we do an idiom activity”. 8. “Now you may go and select your books”.
d. Students Assessment Activities – Assessment is ongoing at the beginning of the lesson and at the end of the lesson during the closure. I am seeing who responds to the questions that are asked.
Bibliography Moses, Will. Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People. USA: Penguin Group, 2008.
Lesson Title: Idioms
Erdenheim Elementary
Grade Level: 5th Grade
Time: 40 Minute Lesson
1. Pre-Instructional Planning
This is a forty minute lesson planned for the 5thd grade. It is part of a two week lesson that will teach students about
one of the elements of figurative language the idiom.
a. Planning Team: This lesson was designed by Judy High and Nora Neumann.
b. Student Group: As stated this is a 5th grade lesson regarding idioms. The class contains 23 students.
c. Lesson Title: Idioms
d. PA K-12 Academic Standards – Speaking & Listening 1.6
e. AASL 21st Century Reading/Information Literacy Standards -
Inquire, Think Critically, and Gain Knowledge Skills 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.7, 1.3.1
Pursue personal and aesthetic growth – 4.1.1
2. Objectives:
As a result of today’s lesson 5th grade students will be able state the definition of an idiom and give one example of an
idiom.
3. Materials: Idiom Cards, Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle
the Funny Bones of Young People by Will Moses
4. Lesson Activities:
a. Introduction: Librarian greets students at the door “Hello boys and girls. Welcome to the library.
Follow me to the story carpet”.
b. Developmental Activities:
1. “Hello and how is your day going? Language can be very beautiful. It also can be very funny. Does anyone
know what this means? Hold up corresponding idiom card with ‘swallowed it hook, line and sinker’ written on
it? Or ‘skeletons in your closet’? Or ‘in a pickle’?
2. These are idioms. Does anyone know what an idiom is”? Discuss.
3. “No one really knows the exact history of idioms. They are believed to come from various cultures and
writers. For example the idiom bury the hatchet is thought to come from the American Indians. Writers such as
Shakespeare and Aesop were also thought to have made up idioms when they were writing”.
4. “When you think about the literal meaning of an idiom it can be very funny. If I say you have egg on your
face does that really mean you have egg all over your face”? No of course not. But what if English wasn’t your
first language. What would you think some of those idioms meant? In the doghouse might really mean that you
were in the doghouse”.
5. Today we are going to read the book Raining Cats and Dogs: A Collection of Irresistible Idioms
and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People. This book was written and illustrated
by Will Moses.
6. Read idioms in the book asking students if they know what the idiom means before telling them the
meaning. For example, ‘make a beeline’. “Does that really mean that a bee is making a line down the center of
a road”?
c. Closure
7. “Who can tell me what an idiom is? Do we take idioms literally? Idioms are very fun and we’re going to
continue the fun next week when we do an idiom activity”.
8. “Now you may go and select your books”.
d. Students Assessment Activities – Assessment is ongoing at the beginning of the lesson and at the
end of the lesson during the closure. I am seeing who responds to the questions that are asked.
Bibliography
Moses, Will. Raining Cats and Dogs: A collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People. USA: Penguin Group, 2008.